1991: Supermodel Moment
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1991: Supermodel Moment
Gianni Versace - the supermodel\'s Svengali - introduces the world to women who don\'t get out of bed for less than $10,000.
Date: March 2001. Place: Milan.
The Versace catwalk show was traditionally the height of shameless Italian glamour. After the usual wait the soundtrack switched to George Michael\'s track, Freedom, and four figures appear in shadow on the back of the catwalk. Spotlights reveal it\'s Linda, Cindy, Naomi and Christy - first names only even then - wearing tiny toga dresses slashed to the thigh in dazzlingly bright shades. They stride out, flashing long bronzed legs, arms loosely intertwined, miming to the words of the song. "I won\'t let you down... please don\'t give me up." It was a blinding collection in every sense, from the Versace signature patterns to the pinks and yellows and greens. But most importantly there were the girls... oh, those girls. The line-up included Helena Christensen, Stephanie Seymour, Eva Herzigova, Carla Bruni, Gail Elliot, and Claudia Schiffer. Before the show these girls were merely models. After they were supermodels. -By Julia Robson
1993: Kate Moss Image Triggers `Heroin Chic\'
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1993: Kate Moss Image Triggers `Heroin Chic\'
In 1992,
Marc Jacobs, then creative director of struggling American brand Perry Ellis, came up with a new style that would put it back on the fashion radar - grunge. Although the miss-match grubby vintage-meets-student vibe got him the sack, it kick started a new fashion (and ultimately led to his own label). Within a year, grunge was bubbling under mainstream fashion. But it wasn\'t until British photographer Corinne Day (who had snapped
Kate Moss as a 15-year-old schoolgirl for the cover of The Face in 1990) put a name to the movement and picked the model to front it that the controversial ‘heroin chic\' took off. Her image of a gaunt looking Kate Moss in a dim room, lit by a string of fairy lights for British Vogue, changed the direction of fashion and triggered an outcry. Bad taste never looked so good. Later that year Moss became the face of
Calvin Klein and went on to represent L\'Oréal pocketing approx, £30million in the process.
1998: High Fashion Gets a TV Show
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1998: High Fashion Gets A TV Show
Thank you Sex And The City: 1998-2004.
Four beautiful single women in Manhattan gossip about their sex lives while we look at their clothes?! No one could have predicted the impact the American network show, based on Candace Bushnell\'s memoirs, would have on the world. Great acting, clever storylines and clothes styled by the legendary Patricia Field made luxury fashion brands household names. Fabulous fashion moments occurred throughout the 94 episodes. This is the reason ‘Jimmies\' is now cockney rhyming slang for shoes (as in Jimmy Choos, shoes). Best fashion moment? Carrie, circa 1999, wearing white string vests, pink tutu, gold Manolos, ‘Carrie\' necklace and clutch bag in shape of horse.
2007: Dior\'s New Look 60th Anniversary
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2007: Dior\'s New Look 60th Anniversary
Reunion of the supermodels, Galliano-style.
The designer responsible for keeping Dior\'s memory in the fashion spotlight for the past decade, John Galliano, gathered together supermodels past and present for this epic Couture show in July 2007. Staged in the Orangerie in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, at night, Linda (Evangelista), Naomi, Amber, Shalom, Gisele and newcomers like Raquel Zimmermann wore faces painted with drag queen make-up, along with lavish crinolines as well as new takes on the 1947 iconic suit on the runway. Romantic, theatric and fantastical, the designer renowned for his decadence drew inspiration chiefly from fashion painters (Caravaggio, El Greco, Vermeer) to salute the fact Mr Dior was an art collector prior to being a fashion designer. He also included references from fashion illustrators (Eric, Gruau), photographers (Irving Penn) and of course Christian Dior himself, who changed the way women dressed post World War 2.
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1985: Music and Fashion Fuse
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1985: Music and Fashion Fuse
Madonna wears post punk ‘street\' fashion in silly chick flick, Desperately Seeking Susan and creates global fashion.
Madonna uses clothes - along with her body and her music - to get noticed. A year after her saucy song, Like A Virgin, topped the charts (aided by a video shown on new cult music station, MTV), the fledgling pop starlet pulled herself up by her signature bra-straps and landed herself a part in a movie. The inborn stylist in her drew on London and New York street fashion to help her create a costume for the flighty Susan, a mélange of post-punk gothic black lace, vintage \'50s tutu, underwear, fetish gloves and clattering crosses. Her look made us ask, "Who\'s That Girl?" It was the first - but not the last - time Madonna picked up significant trends bubbling under and hurled them into mainstream. (NB. this look is still being worn in downtown Tokyo by Harajuku girls).
1994: Fame Trumps Fashion
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1994: Fame Trumps Fashion
Elizabeth Hurley wears Versace safety-pin dress to premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral.
The invitation to the premiere read, "Dress as if going to wedding." Liz Hurley wore something you might expect on a stag night. A "favour" from the Versace press office led to Hurley\'s meteoric overnight fame. "His people told me they didn\'t have any evening wear, but there was one item left in the press office. So I tried it on and that was it,\'\' she says. But it so wasn\'t. Something magical and unheard of occurred that night. The combination of £2,540 black, floor-length Versace gown held together by 24 safety pins, and a voluptuous yet unknown 29-year-old actress, led to a new concept: celebrity fashion (and Hurley-worship, she was signed as the face of Estee Lauder soon afterwards). Michael Foster, the then head of ITN, told Elizabeth at the time, "Do you realise every woman at this party hates you for wearing that dress?" Fortunately for her, most of the paparazzi were hot-blooded males. News pictures were wired globally and the following morning La Hurley woke up a star... thanks to THAT dress.
2001: Is it Art or is it Fashion?
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2001: Is it Art or is it Fashion?
Alexander McQueen\'s ‘lunatic asylum\' show raises bar for fashion shows.
Already famous for the unpredictable - both in his shows and extraordinary clothes - Alexander McQueen pulled off a major coup in his spring/summer 2001 collection during London Fashion Week. It was a turning point both for fashion and the then 31-year-old designer. Art installation morphed into fashion show as the audience was treated to a mirrored box bursting open to reveal a sleeping Rubenesque nude in a Victorian-style padded cell swarming with live moths to a soundtrack of menacing breathing. Then came the models. Kate Moss, wearing gauze head bandages and a beautiful petal dress, clawed at the broken asylum windows. Others joined her, some in straitjackets bedecked with stuffed birds, tops made from mussel shells and skirts from feathers. Beating at their costumes with bandaged fists caused shells to shatter onto the broken glass shards on the floor. Arguably McQueen\'s most successful attempt at combing artistic concept with fine clothes, weeks later he sold 51% of his company to Gucci. This left him with sufficient investment to expand while retaining 100% creative control. McQueen\'s ever expanding empire subsequently made him a millionaire and the rest is history.
1961: Little Black Dress Becomes an Icon
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1961: Little Black Dress Becomes an Icon
Audrey Hepburn wears LBD by Givenchy for the movie, Breakfast At Tiffany\'s.
The story goes when Audrey was first sent to the Paris couture house of Hubert de Givenchy (who created ‘that\' dress for the movie), he was expecting the other ‘Miss Hepburn\' - Katharine, she of the trouser-wearing. Disappointment gave way to adoration. Givenchy designed the snug-fit and sleeveless LBD to hint at the racy character of Holly Golightly. The combination of effortlessly simple and spectacularly chic was a winner. The dress also became a backdrop for vital accessories: pearl necklace, big blobby blonde streaks in her hair (revolutionary), gloves and - very important - black supersized sunglasses worn by day and night. Her get up was immediately adopted as ‘uniform\' by fashionistas. The dress continues to be copied and referenced. Rightly so.
1976: Punk Rocks the Establishment... and the Fashion World
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1976: Punk Rocks the Establishment... and the Fashion World
Having just renamed 430 Kings Road, Seditionaries - Clothes for Heroes, (previous incarnations were Sex and Let It Rock), Malcolm McLaren, (by now manager of the Sex Pistols), and his collaboratrice, Vivienne Westwood got busy on revamping the stock. Having previously sold fetish-themed clothes fashioned from rubber (at a time when the nation was wearing sensible beige and cream Nylon), Westwood, pushed the anti-establishment, anarchic fashion ethos one step further. Her ripped-up garments adorned with safety pins, items fashioned from clashing tartans and the Union Flag, leather biker jackets, slogan badges and erotic straps, chains and buckles collectively became ‘punk\'. "You couldn\'t imagine the punk rock thing without the clothing," she once said. The clothes - which weren\'t cheap - were however, easy to copy. Anti-fashion inevitably became mainstream forcing Westwood to keep creating and the shop, which was home to a caged live rat, set a trend for quirky destination boutiques.
1994: Fash Glam Wallop
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1994: Fash Glam Wallop
Tom Ford\'s first collection for Gucci put glamour and sex back into fashion. His sensual skintight satin shirts, low slung velvet hipsters, boot-cut jeans embellished with feathers and dripping in beads, lace tunics and Halston-esque ‘goddess\' silk jersey dresses with key-hole cut-outs, eradicated grunge. Then there were the accessories: polished metallic patent high heeled boots, teetering stilettos, tinted \'70s style rock star sunglasses, pendants and gorgeous tasselled bags helped create a sexy - and wearable - uniform ideal for day or night. Bankrupt when Ford joined, a year later (following Mario Testino\'s legendary campaigns featuring Amber Valletta) Gucci was valued at $4.3billion. From 1994-2001 if you didn\'t wear Gucci (or at least Gucci style) you weren\'t born.
